Guided Meditations and Visualisations
(per Zoom during the Pandemic)

This session helps you switch off your busy 'left brain', to find relaxation and new inspiration. When working with the ‘right brain’, you can experience aspects of your reality that the analytical mind can't reach. There, you can release stress and find new impulses, ideas and positive energy.
After the visualisations, there is a sharing round, for participants to talk about their experiences and explore how they can apply their new insights to their lives. You can always share as much or as little as you like. 

What happens in a session?

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Every session will be slightly different. We will always do a visualisation journey with the drum, and use some other guided meditation techniques:

• Drum Journeys are guided visualisations where you listen to a soft drum-beat and  'journey' with an animal, or visit a tree or an element (the wind, the water, etc.) to find your deeper wisdom. Don't worry if you do not have 'imagination' - you will be guided all the way through the exercise and discover new ways of perceiving. (You do not need a drum to join).
• Hatsurei Ho - this is a meditation and breathing technique that belongs to the Reiki system, an ancient Japanese healing and self-development method that was re-discovered in the early 20th-century. 
• Movement meditations - inspired by Tai Chi moves, we may practice breathing and movement exercises that everybody can do easily. If you are physically challenged, you can do these while sitting down.

Schedule for 2020 (per Zoom during the Pandemic)

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Tuesday Evenings

Private Sessions

Where:  Per Zoom Video conference
Time:  Tuesday  evenings, 7.30-to ca. 9.00pm
Dates:  3 and 24 Nov; 15 Dec
Cost: £15 per session (or "pay-what-you-can" during the Pandemic).

For Individuals or Groups of Friends/Families
Where: Per Zoom Video Conference
​When: At a time that suits your group
Cost: £45 per 1 hour session.  If you like to bring friends/family members, then every additional person pays £5. Up to eight people per Zoom meeting. 

The origins of  Journeying

Being able to change our brain waves for visualisation journeys by using a drum beat or another rhythmic impulse is an ancient skill that has been used by native Americans and other tribal communities all over the world for thousands of years. Nowadays, it is a practice that anyone can enjoy and find valuable, regardless of their religious or spiritual belief.

How Visualisation Journeys work

Have you ever noticed that you have the best ideas and find new solutions to old problems when you stop thinking too hard and just relax? Drum Journey meditation is one way to make use of this phenomenon. The beat of the drum fosters our ability to stop thinking in a logical way and open ourselves up to a different way of being and perceiving.
Scientifically speaking, participants change their brainwaves from alpha waves (our usual way of thinking) to beta or theta waves (this is how the brain works when we are sleeping or meditating). Drum Journeying is a bit like dreaming – the difference is that we are fully awake and can take an active part in the journey. We can ask questions and state our intention for the journey, and then receive targeted guidance and new vitality.

Jeremy recounts the story of his Visualisation Journey

The purpose of my meditation was to seek guidance on how I can find more clients for my catering business. When the drum started, I was guided to imagine myself walking in a lovely garden. I was told to look around to see whether I could find a bird or another animal, and sure enough, there was a spotted woodpecker. I introduced myself to the woodpecker and asked him whether he could show me some answers to my question.
He invited me to come and fly with him, and we both took off high into the clouds. Up there, I saw a neon sign, bright with red and yellow colours. Nothing written on it though; it was just a blank board. Woodpecker told me to write my name on it. I did not know how to do this, and I asked woodpecker for help. He plucked one of his feathers and used it as a writing pen. His ink was a drop of blood that had come out from his skin when the feather was plucked. He gave me the feather and told me two write. I felt reluctant and shy to do it. Woodpecker kept encouraging me. Finally, I wrote my name on the neon sign, and it lit up even more and started to turn. Then I heard the call-back signal of the drum, Andrea told us to give our thanks and say our good-byes. Then I went back to the garden and into normal reality.

What did the journey teach me?

I noticed that I had been reluctant to believe in myself before this meditation. Yes, I wanted to put my name ‘out there’, but I was not self-confident enough to really stand out from the crowd and believe in the quality of my offerings. Woodpecker taught me that I had to be more self-confident and really put more of myself - even a ‘drop of blood’ - into this business. This was a real boost for me. I keep imagining the neon sign and I still see it turning and shining up there - a good reminder that I ought to believe in myself.